Shadow Quotes

I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure, Sky-bound was the mind, earth-bound the body rests. [Kepler's epitaph]

It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.

The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.

Even in warmest glow how cold my shadow

Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?

If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.

People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.

Those you love leave behind their shadows to walk, always, with you in the form of memories.

Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.

We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow.

It is better to follow even the shadow of the best, than to remain content with the worst.

Our days on earth are like a shadow, and the time of our affliction is the length of our days.

But when we set out to understand somebody’s inside? Is that a trip that ever ends? Is the soul a place of facts? Or are the alleged facts only the deceptive shadows of our stories?

The highest earthly enjoyments are but a shadow of the joy I find in reading God's Word.

What labor and pains worldlings take to obtain the vain things of this life-to obtain the poor things of this world, which are but shadows and dreams, and mere nothings!

I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep; for my shadow in the pool can do better than that.

It's a pretty big shadow. It gives me lots of room to spread myself.

It's time for ordinary Americans to come out of the shadows and remind Washington every day in words and actions that we are a sovereign nation, not a sanctuary nation.

The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.

The valley of the shadow of death holds no darkness for the child of God. There must be light, else there could be no shadow. Jesus is the light. He has overcome death.

Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

...They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.

These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.

Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side, in order to be good.

They continued to watch each other from across the room, both frozen for a moment by the shadow of distant possibilities.

Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.

The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.

Sometimes, I think the things we see are shadows of the things to be; that what we plan we build

We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.

I want to build spires in their minds and dance shadows through like marionettes, chased by whispers and hints of the unspeakable.

We can't escape the shadow, so the best thing we can do is notice the light and be open to it.

God is truth and light his shadow.

Disarmament without checks is but a shadow - and a community without law is but a shell.

A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.

The older I get, the more I feel those kinds of ghosts - especially the women in my life - moving out of the shadows a bit more and becoming more present in my life.

Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.

There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.

The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.

But why look back at all? Why turn your eyes to your shadow, when, by looking upward, you see your rainbow in the same direction?

See, here's a shadow found; the human nature Is made th' umbrella to the Deity, To catch the sunbeams of thy just Creator; Beneath this covert thou may'st safely lie.

And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.

Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow.

Most often, walking alone with my shadow is how I find my answer, the result of gathering together all agreeable parties.

Man is a dream about a shadow. But when some splendour falls upon him from God, a glory comes to him and his life is sweet.

As each layer of shadow is mined from the darkness, as each fear is faced and each projection reclaimed, the gold shines through.

The moment you accept God's ordering, that moment your work ceases to be a task, and becomes your calling; you pass from bondage to freedom, from the shadow-land of life into life itself.